What it Does: BDO is considered to be in second place among the second-tier firms that lie just beneath the Big Four( KPMG, PwC, Deloitte and Ernst and Young). Its clientele is generally mid-sized business houses to which it provides management consulting, corporate finance, accounting and taxation services.
Mission: BDO experts focus on value creation: they provide our clients with innovative ideas, valuable information and advice they can trust.
Size and Presence: BDO has around 1000 offices all over the globe and is endowed with many young and experienced professionals.
Best Known For: BDO is known to be the most adaptive and evolving firm with respect to the changing work needs, business models, cultural, economic and social changes and most important technological changes.
The Good Bits: Good work environment with great people in management, excellent work exposure.
The Not So Good Bits: Low salary, work hours are comparatively long and work-life balance is on the lower side.
At the time of inception, BDO was known as Binder Seidman International Group. It was an amalgamation of different firms hailing from the UK, USA, Netherlands, Canada and Germany. They clubbed their knowledge and resources to make a holistic firm to provide world-class services to their clients. Then in 1973, the BDO name was espoused taking the initials of the name of the founding members of the firm. In 1988, an initiative was taken to place the BDO acronym in front of the name of every local firm.
It is a partner-driven firm, each based in a different location worldwide with the resources of the entire group at its disposal which makes the firm a leader in its work field. BDO has expanded their business and clientele since, adopting each and every change which came its way.
BDO is built upon the philosophy of providing quality, product-oriented and quality business to their clients in the best way possible. Since the partners are well-known and reputed professionals in the industry who are experts in their field of work and very particular about the services they provide which revolve around the client’s needs and are based on factual knowledge.
BDO’s forte lies in providing the top business services to their clients which are innovation and technology-driven and goes beyond the borders of any one industry or country. When it comes to the Indian regulatory domain which is actually very complex, the firm prioritizes and delegates the roles to different professionals so that the quality of work remains intact.
BDO provides unmatched depth and works quality, experience and exposure. Their reputation is built on the fact that they are knowledge-driven and have a very strong sense of client satisfactory needs. It provides a great platform for fresh graduates and even for experienced professionals to build an immaculate career working in BDO. Their client list is diverse and provides ample knowledge and exposure for any professional to immensely gain from it.
There are more than one ways to get into BDO such as speaking engagements, office tours, firm events, and off-campus and on-campus interviews. The interviews are mostly taken by the experienced professionals of the firm.
The average annual salary of a fresh graduate at BDO is INR 5,00,000.
BDO's office building is equipped with the cutting-edge technology of environment use materials which are eco-friendly. BDO uses recyclable materials as far as possible and tries to minimize the use of paper by using digital methods.